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Prediction for 2014: War Will Continue to Find A Way

Does Scrooge Reign in the USA Today?

Peter Medawar's "The Limits of Science"

"Doin' Right Ain't Got No End"

The Sandy Hook Martyrs -- One Year Later

We Need an "All Quiet on the Afghan Front" (Updated)

STEM Education Is Not Enough

Everything is a Commodity

The Education Business: Money, Money, Money (Updated)

On Black Friday, the Hologram Is Revealed

Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1936

Fear and Monsters

Our Pro-War Media

War Is Becoming Obsolete -- In 1884

Too Many Troops Have Died in the Name of Big Boy Pants

The United States: Empire or Umpire?

Ann Jones on the Horrendous Costs of War to Our Veterans

Euphemisms and the Banality of Evil

The Predatory Nature of War

Harvard and the Serving of God and Mammon

That Word Again: Lockdown

War! What Is It Good For? Profit and Power

Old Thoughts on the Iraq War and Its Aftermath

Uncle Sam Wants You, Stars of Stage and Screen and the Sporting World

Remember Color-Coded Threat Warnings?

Iraq and Afghanistan Are Not Rubik's Cubes

Lessons of the Vietnam War

Military Academies and American Values -- Updated

The Day the Congress Stood Still

Martial Virtue: Promise and Peril

Creationism and Global Warming Denial in the USA -- Updated

Of MOOCs and Technology: Why True Education Is Not Content Delivery

Three Lessons for the U.S. Military from the Falklands War

America's Ascetic Warrior-Generals

"American Fascism": Accurate or Misleading?

Wars Are Not Won by the Suppression of Truth

An Open Letter to Congress on Syria

Why We're Outraged by Poison Gas

Placing Too Much Faith in Technology in the Classroom

The Rock is Black, the Tank is White ...

Syria (Maybe) Used Chemical Weapons -- And the U.S. Sits in Judgment?

In Praise of Douglas Kinnard, A Truth-telling General of the Vietnam War

Apache Scouts, Listening; Hollywood, Not Listening

A Cherokee Parable

The Persistence of War

What It's All About

The Conservative Critique of Higher Education Misses the Mark

The Bitter Logic of Capitalism

Education, Thoughtlessness, and the Golem

The U.S. Military’s Limited Critique of Itself Ensures Future Disasters

Moving Memorial to Sandy Hook Martyrs

A Bumper Sticker Collage

George Bernard Shaw's Warning from History

Yes, Education is about Social Control

Forgotten Are the Peacemakers

Dueling Bumper Stickers

Finding Inner Peace

Why We Celebrate July 4th

Asymmetrical Warfare: Its Real Meaning

Fighting Forest Fires

Thirteen Movies About the Holocaust

No Nation Can Preserve Its Freedom in the Midst of Continual Warfare

The Perils of Zombie Education

New Meaning for the NSA

America Is the Greatest Country? Look At Our Health Care -- And Weep

Avoiding Egocentrism and Hyper-Competitiveness

Fresh Thinking on U.S. National Security Policy

The Need for Fresh Thinking in National Security Policy

The Dreadfulness of War

Bread and Circuses in Rome and America

The Temptations of Drone Warfare

What Is Terrorism?

The Death of Serious Discourse in America

Of Tail Fins and Fighter Jets: Artificial Obsolescence and Economic Bankruptcy (Updated)

Favorite Contrarian Quotations (1)

Our Disneyland Approach to Empire

War is a Racket

Memorial Day Lesson: Forever War is Forever Profitable -- For Some